Plant Psidium guajava (Myrtaceae) | Dr. Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases

Common Names

Guava

How this plant is used

Food

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List of plant chemicals.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Chemical Name	Activity Count	Plant Part	Low Parts Per Million	High Parts Per Million	Standard Deviation	Reference
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Bark	not available	571.4	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-GALLOCATECHIN	7	Leaf	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
(+)-LIMONENE	0	Essential Oil	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-3-4-6-TETRA-O-GALLOYL-GLUCOSE	0	Root	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-ETHYL-THIOPHENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-FURFURAL	0	Fruit	not available	7000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-PROPAN-2-OL	0	Fruit	not available	10000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-PROPANE-1-THIOL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-THIO-BENZOTHIAZOLE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-METHYL-THIOPHENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2-PHENETHYLACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	2000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
2ALPHA-HYDROXYURSOLIC-ACID	0	Plant	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3,3'-DI-O-METHYL-ELLAGIC-ACID	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Lowry, J. B. 1968. The Distribution and Potential Taxonomic Value of Alkylated Ellagic Acids. Phytochemistry 7 10: 1803-1813
3-METHYL-BUTAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	3000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-BUTYL-ACETATE	0	Fruit	not available	1000.0	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-METHYL-THIOPHENE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
3-O-METHYL-ELLAGIC-ACID	0	Bark	not available	not available	not available	Lowry, J. B. 1968. The Distribution and Potential Taxonomic Value of Alkylated Ellagic Acids. Phytochemistry 7 10: 1803-1813
5-ETHOXY-THIAZOLE	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
6-MERCAPTO-HEXAN-1-OL	0	Fruit	not available	not available	not available	Duke, 1992 *
ACETALDEHYDE	6	Fruit	not available	2000.0	1.41	Duke, 1992 *

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List of plant activities.
Click on column headings to sort table by that column. *Unless otherwise noted all references are to (Duke, 1992)
Activity	Chemical Count	Reference
Antifibrinolytic	3	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 1: 53.
Antifibromyalgic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrosarcomic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antifibrotic	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antiflu	7	Economic & Medicinal Plant Research, 5: 195.
Antifuruncular	1	Martindale's 28th
Antigallstone	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastric	2	Duke, 1992 *
Antigastritic	4	Martindale's 29th
Antigastrotic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigenotoxic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigingivitic	4	Duke, 1992 *
Antiglaucomic	2	Werbach, M. 1993. Healing with Food. Harper Collins, New York, 443 pp.
Antiglossitic	1	Davies, S., and Stewart, A. 1990. Nutritional Medicine. Avon Books, New York. 509pp.
Antiglutamaergic	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigonadotrophic	2	Malini, T. and Vanithakumari, G. 1989. Rat Toxicity Studies With B-Sitosterol. Journal of Ethnopharmacology, 28: 221-234, 1990.
Antigonadotropic	1	Jeffery B. Harborne and H. Baxter, eds. 1983. Phytochemical Dictionary. A Handbook of Bioactive Compounds from Plants. Taylor & Frost, London. 791 pp.
Antigranular	1	Duke, 1992 *
Antigrey	1	Martindale's 29th
AntiGTF	2	Duke, 1992 *